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March - 3 
A 10-year old boy was killed and two other children sustained injuries as a bomb, abandoned in a police station premises, exploded in the Chapainawabganj town on March 3, reports Daily Star. Police said the bomb had been dumped into the dustbin and e
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A 10-year old boy was killed and two other children sustained injuries as a bomb, abandoned in a police station premises, exploded in the Chapainawabganj town on March 3, reports Daily Star. Police said the bomb had been dumped into the dustbin and exploded when three children were playing near the dustbin.
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March - 3 
A tem of RAB personnel arrested five other suspected militants in the Ambagh area of Konabari on the same day. The militants, hailing from Barguna District, were subsequently handed over to the Police.
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A tem of RAB personnel arrested five other suspected militants in the Ambagh area of Konabari on the same day. The militants, hailing from Barguna District, were subsequently handed over to the Police.
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March - 3 
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on March 3 arrested two suspected militants from Konabari in the Gazipur District, reports Daily Star. The arrested were identified as Osman Gani (28) and Azizul Hakim (30), residents of Baghmara sub-district in
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Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on March 3 arrested two suspected militants from Konabari in the Gazipur District, reports Daily Star. The arrested were identified as Osman Gani (28) and Azizul Hakim (30), residents of Baghmara sub-district in Rajshahi. A diary was recovered from their possession.
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March - 3 
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel unearthed an illegal firearms manufacturing factory at Pachsira Bazaar of Kalai sub-district in Joypurhat District on March 3 and arrested one person in connection, reports Daily Star.
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Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel unearthed an illegal firearms manufacturing factory at Pachsira Bazaar of Kalai sub-district in Joypurhat District on March 3 and arrested one person in connection, reports Daily Star.
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March - 12 
Daily Star reports that Army personnel on March 12 recovered firearms and ammunition from the remote Aong Jai Karbari Para village in the Roangchhari sub-district of Bandarban District and arrested two persons in connection with the recovery. The sei
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Daily Star reports that Army personnel on March 12 recovered firearms and ammunition from the remote Aong Jai Karbari Para village in the Roangchhari sub-district of Bandarban District and arrested two persons in connection with the recovery. The seizure included one M16 rifle, one SLR, 18 grenades, 299 SMG bullets and 91 SLR bullets. Two sets of army uniforms, one resembling the Bangladesh army and another of the Indian army were also recovered. The arrested youths claimed that the arms had been hidden by cadres of the Myanmar-based insurgent outfit, the Arakan Liberation Party, who had taken shelter in the village.
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March - 12 
Daily Star reports that the Government has authorised 14 Police stations in capital Dhaka to bring sedition charges against 27 Hizb ut-Tahrir operatives detained for "distributing provocative leaflets" over the BDR mutiny. The leaflets had urged the
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Daily Star reports that the Government has authorised 14 Police stations in capital Dhaka to bring sedition charges against 27 Hizb ut-Tahrir operatives detained for "distributing provocative leaflets" over the BDR mutiny. The leaflets had urged the civilians to "dislodge the government to save the army and BDR from Indian conspiracies."
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March - 12 
Immigration Police on March 12 arrested a suspected Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadre, identified as Moulana Munsur Alam (45), from the international border between India and Bangladesh at Benapole in the Jessore District. Police sources sa
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Immigration Police on March 12 arrested a suspected Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadre, identified as Moulana Munsur Alam (45), from the international border between India and Bangladesh at Benapole in the Jessore District. Police sources said Alam was returning from India after five months. An Indian mobile SIM card was recovered from his possession. He apparently had visited India with a one-month visa and had then stayed illegally in different madrassas (seminaries) subsequently.
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March - 12 
On March 12, the Commerce Minister Lt Col (retired) Faruk Khan, who has been coordinating the investigations into the February 25 and 26 killing of 74 people including 52 Army officers at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Pilkhana headquarters, linked the
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On March 12, the Commerce Minister Lt Col (retired) Faruk Khan, who has been coordinating the investigations into the February 25 and 26 killing of 74 people including 52 Army officers at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Pilkhana headquarters, linked the killings to the militant outfit, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), reports Daily Star. He said some of the BDR personnel arrested for their involvement in the mutiny have connections with the JMB. "We have gathered that a number of BDR jawans arrested in the mutiny case were involved in JMB somehow or other. I won't give more details as that might alert others having links to the mass killings," he told reporters.
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March - 13 
Daily Star reports that the JMB militants are carrying out their organisational activities from makeshift camps in different char (riverine) areas and remote villages in Sirajganj and adjoining Districts. Quoting intelligence sources, the report furt
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Daily Star reports that the JMB militants are carrying out their organisational activities from makeshift camps in different char (riverine) areas and remote villages in Sirajganj and adjoining Districts. Quoting intelligence sources, the report further said the outfit has been recruiting new cadres and training them in makeshift camps set up in these areas. Several such camps have reportedly come up the remote areas of Sirajganj, Bogra, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Joypurhat, Natore, Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Pabna, Kurigram, Thakurgaon, Naogaon and Nilphamari Districts.
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March - 14 
Daily Star reports that Hasibur Rahman Bilu, a Police Sub-Inspector (SI) in the Bogra District, listed by the Police as a cadre of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) outfit after the countrywide bomb blasts on August 17 2005, is still working in t
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Daily Star reports that Hasibur Rahman Bilu, a Police Sub-Inspector (SI) in the Bogra District, listed by the Police as a cadre of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) outfit after the countrywide bomb blasts on August 17 2005, is still working in the Police department.
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March - 16 
According to New Age, the Cabinet on March 16 sent back to the Home Ministry its report on the activities of militant outfits in the country asking it to give more information about such organisations and their networks. The report named a dozen such
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According to New Age, the Cabinet on March 16 sent back to the Home Ministry its report on the activities of militant outfits in the country asking it to give more information about such organisations and their networks. The report named a dozen such outfits with information on their organograms, sources of funding, links to political parties and their operations. Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder placed the report that named 12 militant outfits – the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI-B), Hizbut Towhid, Ulama Anjuman al Bainat, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Islami Democratic Party, Islami Samaj, Touhid Trust, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Shahadat-e al Hikma Party Bangladesh, Tamira Ar-Din Bangladesh (Hizb e Abu Omar) and Allahr Dal. The Government has so far banned four Islamist militant outfits – the JMB, HuJI-B, JMJB and Shahadat-e al Hikma.
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March - 19 
A pipe gun and two bullets of a rifle were recovered from Shah Mukdum Hall of Rajshahi University in the Rajshahi District on March 19, reports Daily Star. The cleaners of the hall ahd found a pipe gun and two bullets wrapped in polythene on the grou
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A pipe gun and two bullets of a rifle were recovered from Shah Mukdum Hall of Rajshahi University in the Rajshahi District on March 19, reports Daily Star. The cleaners of the hall ahd found a pipe gun and two bullets wrapped in polythene on the ground floor of the hall. The Police later seized the weapons.
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March - 20 
Militants are making threats against English-language schools in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, Police said on March 20, Reuters reported. Police said principals of several English-language schools told them they had received threatening letters or ph
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Militants are making threats against English-language schools in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, Police said on March 20, Reuters reported. Police said principals of several English-language schools told them they had received threatening letters or phone calls from militants and parents of students in the schools have subsequently been alerted of security concerns. The letters asked for money to support the militants or treat those wounded in clashes with Security Forces during the recent Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny or other clashes. While authorities have not been specific about the threats another source involved in the issue said they were directed against students.
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March - 21 
The Police recovered 19 brochures and some leaflets of the JMB from Hotel Al- Baraka in Khulna city on March 21.
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The Police recovered 19 brochures and some leaflets of the JMB from Hotel Al- Baraka in Khulna city on March 21.
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March - 22 
Police on March 22 arrested two persons, identified as 28 year-old Jahangir Hossain Mukul, a resident of Avoynagar Sub District in Jessore District, and 39-year old Abul Kashem, a resident of Berabalki village in Mymensingh District, from Katia Uttar
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Police on March 22 arrested two persons, identified as 28 year-old Jahangir Hossain Mukul, a resident of Avoynagar Sub District in Jessore District, and 39-year old Abul Kashem, a resident of Berabalki village in Mymensingh District, from Katia Uttarpara of Satkhira town, for their alleged links with the JMB.
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March - 22 
The first court of Rajshahi Divisional Special Judge on March 22 sentenced seven militants of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for life in connection with the August 17, 2005 serial bomb blast case filed with the Motihar Police Statio
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The first court of Rajshahi Divisional Special Judge on March 22 sentenced seven militants of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for life in connection with the August 17, 2005 serial bomb blast case filed with the Motihar Police Station, reports Daily Star. The convicts were identified as JMB’s regional ammunition supplier Torikul Islam, Rajshahi District commander Shafiullah Tarek Kalam, and a zonal JMB commander Abu Isa alias Enamul Haque Mithu, Hasan Ali Ekhwan, Jahangir Alam Abidur and Arif alias Alal. Sheikh Enamul Haq Moni, a supporter of militant leader Asadullah Al Galib, was convicted in absentia. He commanded the JMB's western zone in Rajshahi till 2006 in the guise of a journalist. JMB militants had orchestrated 500 synchronised blasts across the country except in one District.
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March - 23 
On March 23, an intelligence agency arrested a founding member of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI-BD), identified as Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, from his home in the Bashundhara residential area of capital Dhaka, reports Daily Star. Abdus Salam i
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On March 23, an intelligence agency arrested a founding member of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI-BD), identified as Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, from his home in the Bashundhara residential area of capital Dhaka, reports Daily Star. Abdus Salam is the ameer (chief) of the Islamic Democratic Party (IDP). He was born in Sherpur and reportedly went to Afghanistan in the early 1980s and returned in 1989. He also studied in the madrassas (seminaries) of Bangladesh and Pakistan. According to sources, some Afghanistan War veterans led by Abdus Salam officially launched the HuJI through a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club on April 30, 1992.
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March - 24 
A founding member of the banned outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-BD) and the ameer (chief) of the Islamic Democratic Party (IDP), Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, was remanded to four-day Crime Investigation Department custody on March 24
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A founding member of the banned outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-BD) and the ameer (chief) of the Islamic Democratic Party (IDP), Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, was remanded to four-day Crime Investigation Department custody on March 24 in connection with the bomb attack on a Communist Party of Bangladesh rally on January 20, 2001. As reported earlier, Abdus Salam was arrested on March 23 from his home in the Bashundhara Residential area of capital Dhaka.
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March - 24 
During a counter-insurgency operation, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel neutralised a mini-ammunition factory inside a madrassa (seminary)-cum-orphanage in the Ramkeshob village of Borhanuddin Sub District in the Bhola District on March 24,
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During a counter-insurgency operation, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel neutralised a mini-ammunition factory inside a madrassa (seminary)-cum-orphanage in the Ramkeshob village of Borhanuddin Sub District in the Bhola District on March 24, reports Daily Star. During the search operation, the RAB recovered nine firearms, 2500 bullets, 3000 grenade splinters, an explosives blaster, 200 grams of gunpowder, bullet-making components and equipment, two walkie-talkies, two bows, two remote control devices, binoculars, four pairs of German-made uniforms, a book on how to operate firearms and booklets on jihad, Moulana Moududi and al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Subsequently, the RAB also arrested four militants, identified as Abul Kalam, Abdul Halim, Jasim and Moulana Mohammad Russell. Referring to the seizure, Lt. Commander Mamunur Rashid who led the operation said, "We've found materials needed to assemble bullets. They include percussion caps, cartridge cases and bullet heads. And all these are made in the UK.” "The recovery also indicates they [the militants] have all equipment necessary to make IEDs," Mamun added.
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March - 24 
Though the coastal District's Superintendent of Police Azizur Rahman told that the arrestees did not yet disclose their organisational identity, the materials seized suggest that they are linked to the banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bang
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Though the coastal District's Superintendent of Police Azizur Rahman told that the arrestees did not yet disclose their organisational identity, the materials seized suggest that they are linked to the banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Meanwhile, during primary interrogation, the arrested militants told the RAB officials that they were recruited by one Moulana Mohiuddin. They also revealed that Faisal Mostafa, a Bangladeshi expatriate in London, has been financing the seminary.
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March - 26 
A bomb was recovered at a venue of the Independence Day programme in Sarwarzan Pilot High School ground in the Bamna sub-district of Barguna District. The bomb was hidden under the dais erected for the programme. Police sources said two pieces of ele
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A bomb was recovered at a venue of the Independence Day programme in Sarwarzan Pilot High School ground in the Bamna sub-district of Barguna District. The bomb was hidden under the dais erected for the programme. Police sources said two pieces of electric cable, two pencil batteries, capacitor of an electric fan were found wrapped with red tape along with the bomb and ‘JMB Bomb’ was inscribed on it.
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March - 26 
Personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered two firearms and two round cartridges in two separate raids in the East Shaheed Nagar and Khatiber Hat areas of the port city of Chittagong on March 26, reports Daily Star. The firearms included
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Personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered two firearms and two round cartridges in two separate raids in the East Shaheed Nagar and Khatiber Hat areas of the port city of Chittagong on March 26, reports Daily Star. The firearms included a light gun and a single-barrel gun. None has been arrested in connection with the recovery.
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March - 26 
The Jamaat-e-Islami Amir (chief) Matiur Rahman Nizami said on March 25 that militancy has been invented by the AL party in Bangladesh to impede development of the country. Addressing a meeting marking the Independence Day at Dhaka, he said, “Having f
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The Jamaat-e-Islami Amir (chief) Matiur Rahman Nizami said on March 25 that militancy has been invented by the AL party in Bangladesh to impede development of the country. Addressing a meeting marking the Independence Day at Dhaka, he said, “Having failed to accept Islam as code of life, they (AL) campaign against the leaders of Islamic movement.” He said that the Islamists can never have any link with acts of sabotage.
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March - 26 
Two people, including a Awami League (AL) leader Ruhul Amin Khan, were wounded in a bomb blast at his house in the Laxmipur village of Muladi sub-district in Barisal District on March 25, reports Daily Star. Police said the roof of the room was blown
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Two people, including a Awami League (AL) leader Ruhul Amin Khan, were wounded in a bomb blast at his house in the Laxmipur village of Muladi sub-district in Barisal District on March 25, reports Daily Star. Police said the roof of the room was blown up in the explosion. Ruhul later said that two burkha (veil) clad women had visited him asking for some favour and the explosion occurred after they left the house.
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March - 28 
Four cadres of the Arakan Army, a Myanmar-based militant group, were arrested by the intelligence agency personnel at Roangchhari Jeep Station in Bandarban District on March 28, reports Daily Star.
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Four cadres of the Arakan Army, a Myanmar-based militant group, were arrested by the intelligence agency personnel at Roangchhari Jeep Station in Bandarban District on March 28, reports Daily Star.
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March - 29 
Daily Star reports that Army personnel arrested three indigenous people with rifles at Ulum Para under Alikadam sub-district of the Bandarban District on March 29. The arrested persons were identified as Maan Mro, Thing Wang Mro and Naoring Mro.
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Daily Star reports that Army personnel arrested three indigenous people with rifles at Ulum Para under Alikadam sub-district of the Bandarban District on March 29. The arrested persons were identified as Maan Mro, Thing Wang Mro and Naoring Mro.
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March - 29 
On March 29, Police submitted charge sheets in three cases in connection with the seizure of explosive materials from the JMB operatives and detonation of an explosive at Gazipur District Police Chief’s office.
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On March 29, Police submitted charge sheets in three cases in connection with the seizure of explosive materials from the JMB operatives and detonation of an explosive at Gazipur District Police Chief’s office.
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March - 29 
Police on March 29 arrested a Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant from Baje Goalkandi village in the Bagmara sub-district of Rajshahi District, reports Daily Star. Police sources said the militant, identified as Fazlur Rahman (28), was arr
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Police on March 29 arrested a Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant from Baje Goalkandi village in the Bagmara sub-district of Rajshahi District, reports Daily Star. Police sources said the militant, identified as Fazlur Rahman (28), was arrested from his house on his return from Maldives where he had fled to evade arrest. Police further said Fazlur had earlier functioned as an aide to the executed JMB leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and is an accused in several cases for alleged torture on opponents.
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March - 30 
Police arrested three activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) from the Gopalganj and Thakurgaon Districts on charges of planning subversive activities and selling controversial books. The arrested included the JeI Ameer (chief) of Muksudpur sub-distri
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Police arrested three activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) from the Gopalganj and Thakurgaon Districts on charges of planning subversive activities and selling controversial books. The arrested included the JeI Ameer (chief) of Muksudpur sub-district in Gopalganj, Mohammed Shahidul Islam alias Jahangir Mollah. The other two arrested were identified as Shujan and his father Zahedul Islam, an employee of the Water Development Board in Thakurgaon.
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*Data till , April 19, 2024
Source:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.
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